PATCH: _most_recent_file

PATCH: _most_recent_file

[Peter Stephenson]

Just noticed this is bad about quoting, both with existing quoted
characters and inserting characters which need quoting.  Probably there
wasn't a way to fix this simply when I first wrote it.  Don't suppose
anyone else uses it anyway.

Index: Completion/Base/Widget/_most_recent_file
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/Completion/Base/Widget/_most_recent_file,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -r1.1 _most_recent_file
--- Completion/Base/Widget/_most_recent_file	2001/04/02 11:16:36	1.1
+++ Completion/Base/Widget/_most_recent_file	2001/05/14 13:17:09
@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@
 #compdef -k complete-word \C-xm
 
-# Complete the most recent file matching the pattern on the line so
-# far: globbing is active, i.e. *.txt will be expanded to the most recent
+# Complete the most recently modified file matching the pattern on the line
+# so far: globbing is active, i.e. *.txt will be expanded to the most recent
 # file ending in .txt
 #
 # With a prefix argument, select the Nth most recent matching file;
 # negative arguments work in the opposite direction, so for example
 # `Esc - \C-x m' gets you the oldest file.
-#
-# (`Most recent' means most recently modified.)
 
 local file tilde etilde
 if [[ $PREFIX = \~*/* ]]; then
   tilde=${PREFIX%%/*}
   etilde=${~tilde}
-  file=($~PREFIX*$~SUFFIX(om[${NUMERIC:-1}]N))
-  file=(${file/#$etilde/$tilde})
+  # PREFIX and SUFFIX have full command line quoting in, but we want
+  # any globbing characters which are quoted to stay quoted.
+  eval "file=($PREFIX*$SUFFIX(om[${NUMERIC:-1}]N))"
+  file=(${file/#$etilde})
+  file=($tilde${(q)^file})
 else
-  file=($~PREFIX*$~SUFFIX(om[${NUMERIC:-1}]N))
+  eval "file=($PREFIX*$SUFFIX(om[${NUMERIC:-1}]N))"
+  file=(${(q)file})
 fi
 (( $#file )) && compadd -U -i "$IPREFIX" -I "$ISUFFIX" -f -Q $file

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Unit 300, Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0XL, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070


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